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Table 12: Fields, Options and Defaults for the Security Menu
Menu Field
Options
Supervisor
–—
Password is:
User Password is:
–—
Set Supervisor
–—
Password
Set User Password
–—
Minimum User
–—
Password Length:
■
Password on Boot:
■
■
■
On Automatic
Wake-up:
■
■
KB Lock on Resume:
■
■
Boot from
Removable Media:
■
■
Flash Write:
■
Hard Disk Security
–—
Owner Information
–—
Security Chip Setting
–—
Exiting from the Security Menu
When you have finished setting the parameters on the Security Menu, you can either exit from setup utility or move to
another menu. If you wish to exit from setup utility, press the [
another menu, use the cursor keys.
Default
Clear
Clear
[Enter]
[Enter]
[0]
Disabled
[Disabled]
First Boot
Every Boot
Disabled
[Disabled]
Enabled
Disabled
[Disabled]
Enabled
All
[All]
Supervisor
only
Disabled
[Enabled]
Enabled
–—
–—
–—
S e c u r i t y M e n u
Description
A display-only field. Set is displayed when the system supervisor password
is set and Clear when it is not.
A display-only field. Set is displayed when the general user password is
set, and Clear when it is not.
Sets, changes or cancels the Supervisor Password. The Supervisor Pass-
word may be up to seven characters long and must include only letters or
numbers (no symbols). Passwords are NOT case-sensitive. To cancel a
Enter
password press the
key instead of entering characters in the Enter
New Password field and in the Re-enter New Password field. When a
Supervisor Password is set it must be used to access the BIOS setup utility.
Can only be accessed if Supervisor Password is set. Sets, changes or can-
cels User Password. User Password may be up to seven characters long
and must include only letters or numbers (no symbols). Passwords are
NOT case-sensitive. To cancel a password press the
entering characters in the Enter New Password and Re-enter New Pass-
word fields. When a User Password is set it must be used to access the
BIOS utility.
Can only be accessed if Supervisor Password is set. Set the minimum
length for User Password.
When set to Disabled, no password is required. When set to First Boot,
password entry required only before first boot. When Every Boot is
selected, password required whenever the system is booted.
When set to Disabled, it is not necessary to enter a password to wake up
from LAN or Real Time Clock (RTC). When Enabled, it is still necessary to
enter a password after automatic wake-up.
When Enabled, keyboard or mouse inputs are locked out at Resume From
Suspend or Save-to-Disk until entering password.
When Supervisor Only is selected, only the Supervisor can boot from
removable media. Only the user who enters the Supervisor Password
before OS boot is treated as the Supervisor. When All is selected, boot
from removable media is not restricted.
When disabled, the BIOS Flash Memory is write-protected; when
enabled, it is not.
Configures hard disk security features.
Sets Owner information.
Sets setting for the security chip.
] key to go to the Exit Menu. If you wish to move to
Esc
Enter
key instead of
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